Sara Reisman is Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs at the National Academy of Design in New York City. From 2014 to 2021 she served as Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, where she led the foundation’s art and social justice grant making initiative, curated more than a dozen thematic exhibitions, and edited and wrote for publications including Elia Alba: The Supper Club, published by Hirmer Verlag (2019), and Mobilizing Pedagogy: Two Social Practice Projects in the Americas by Pablo Helguera and Suzanne Lacy with Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, published by Amherst College Press (2019). From 2008 to 2014, Reisman was Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program at the Department of Cultural Affairs, where she managed more than 100 permanent public art commissions across New York City's five boroughs, working with artists including Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jeffrey Gibson, Xu Bing, and Mary Mattingly, among many others. She has curated exhibitions for the Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, the Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Cooper Union School of Art, the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Momenta Art, Smack Mellon, and LaMaMa Galleria, among other venues. Reisman has taught art history and contemporary art issues at the University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Purchase School of Art + Design, and, since 2016, serves on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts’ Curatorial Practice Masters Program. She has been awarded residencies by Art Omi, the Foundation for a Civil Society, Artis, CEC Artslink, Futura, and the Montello Foundation. She received her BA at the University of Chicago and was a 2002-2003 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.